Yeah that biomass law must be revised (on the EU level, it is a EU law).
The emergency law against nitrogen pollution has been passed.
One of the more concrete measures will be altered feedstock which contain less nitrogen (or as another article stated it will be feedstock with less excess protein).
That measure if succesful could be used elsewhere.
There will also be a better form of registration of the actual pollution.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/meerderheid-voor-spoedwet-stikstof-in-eerste-kamer~b87271a0/Most of the rest is watered down:
Zo zal er geen sprake zijn van een ‘generieke krimp’ van de veestapel, worden boeren niet gedwongen te stoppen en worden de drempelwaarden voor stikstof regionaal geregeld. https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kabinet-en-boerenorganisaties-sluiten-akkoord-over-stikstofmaatregelen~b50e85c6/No generic shrinking of the total lifestock, no forced closures and the treshholds will be handled at a regional level.
In Noord Brabant they still want to get rid of a whole lot of farms , not sure what they want to do in the eastern intensive zone.
Basically the politicians once again chose short term gains over actual solutions.
We should examine the whole chain again and then future proof it.
No subsidies for factory farming.
Subsidies for ecological farming. Grow the food for the animals locally, eat them locally.
Possibly a system to work out how much soil gets restored over time and pay the farmers for that.
The current system is not really fun farming (lots of stress about debts) nor is it sustainable.
Maybe we need to visit them and talk about the issue. Is this sustainable for your lifetime? The kids? Grandkids?
A group of 12 farmers who borrowed to enlarge and or modernize their farms rather recently so in the time that the nitrogen issue was bound to surface as a problem is suing the Rabobank for not doing their due diligence. The banks have an obligation to not give out bad or unsustainable loans so they figure that Rabobank should not have lent them the money to modernize.
It would be good if they won that because that would make the Rabobank much more critical about these type of loans and they are the big lender to the farmers. The BO in RaBo stands for Boerenleenbank.
No link for the last bit since that was a short article in one of our newspapers.
PS: As to the dykes that came up earlier this year in another thread and we have quite a bit of margin. Can´t recall which thread.
If actual SLR from climate change overshoots the 2 meter mark the next question is how much more meters are coming over the next century after that and since the rise could accelerate after that building bigger dykes might not be an option. Yes we could build higher dykes but the salt water intrudes in land while in the same time frame we lose most meltwater inputs into the big rivers so they will mostly dry which means a loss of freshwater pressure.
We will move into Germany and then we can sell diving trips to the former Red Light district.
The whole choice is keeping this world in a holocene range or we go straight for the dumbassic as A-team coined it.